Dr. Mark Gurney, Ph.D

Overview

Mark Gurney, Ph.D. has served as our Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery and Development since February 2005. From October 2003 to February 2005 he served as our Senior Vice President, Drug Discovery. Dr. Gurney joined deCODE in August 2000 and was elected our Vice President, Pharmaceutical Discovery in October 2000 and our Vice President, Drug Development in August 2002. He was formerly Director, Genomics Research at Pharmacia Corporation. Prior to his positions at Pharmacia, Dr. Gurney held academic appointments in the Department of Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences at the University of Chicago and in the Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology at the Northwestern University Medical School. He received his B.A. in Biology from the University of California at San Diego in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1980. In 1994, he completed his M.B.A. at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.